ML20009E664

Forwards Proposed Changes to Amend 5 Describing Procurement at Regional Ofcs,In Response to 810720 Telcon

ML20009E664
Person / Time
Site:	05000584
Issue date:	07/21/1981
From:	Keddis N GIBBS & HILL, INC. (SUBS. OF DRAVO CORP.)
To:	Spraul J NRC
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NUDOCS 8107280344
Download: ML20009E664 (5)

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Dear Mr. J. Spraul:

A f( TO Per our telephone conversation on July 20, 1981, we herewith submitting a copy of the proposed changes to Amendment 5 which describes procurement at our regional offices. Regarding your concern on QA we have also attached page 8 of cubsection 17.1.1.4 which states that the QA Department is responsible for surveillance and auditing of procurement at all G&H offices. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Very truly yours, GIBBS & HILL, INC.

N.N. Keddis Manager, Quality Assurance NNK/ JET:rc Attachments I lgh l

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personnel assigned to staff a particular project and work as a team under the administrative respansibility of a project manager.

All regional offices are headed by a Vice President-Ma' nager Regional Office. These Vice Fresidents-Managers report to the Senior Vice President-Regional Operations, who in turn reports to the Executive Vice President.

All nuclear safety-related engineering and design activities at [

the regional offices are headed by a Manager Nuclear Operations or a Manager of Engineering, who reports to the Vice President-Manager Regional Office. Project Fanagers, Chief Engineers and design personnel report to the Manager, Nuclear Operations or Manager of Engineering. .Each of their departments supply technical personnel assigned to staff a particular project and work as a team under tFe administrative responsibility of a project manager.

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-Pnefs Procurement Department is headed by the Manager Purchasing I

who repccts to the Senior Vice President, New York Project Operations through the Assistant to the Senior Vice President. '$

The Manager Purchasing is responsible for the establishment and 5 CorpoM bidders for nuclear maintenance of a4 list of approved L

safety-related items and services; coordinates preparation of the Instructi on to Bidders and Terms and Conditions sections of the Amendment 5 June 1981 -

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A procurement document; and administers all purchasing. and i

expediting aspects related to procurement functions.

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Construction activity within G&H is headed by-the Senior Vice

President, Construction who reports directly. to the President.

However, for quality assurance related matters, the Senior Vice f President, Construction, is accountable to the Executive Vice President. This procedure is applicable to construction activities being performed as part of a G&H project.

i The G&H Senior Vice President, Construction is also the- 3 President, of Dravo Utilities Constructors, Inc. (DUCI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of G&H. The G&H QA Manager also serves as the DUCI QA Manager, thus maintaining uniformity ano control g of the QA and Quality Control (QC) activities of both companies.

DUCI performs QC activities related to vendor shop surveillance services and construction-site functions as required by G&H. In performing these services DUCI utilizes and is governed by those approved programs and procedures developed by G&H. Although DUCI

QC personnel repor; adminstratively to the DUCI Vice President, i Administrative Services, who in turn reports to the President of ,

DUCI, their technical direction comes from G&H QA. The DUCI-

% organization is shown on Figure 17.1-2. .

i l The Senior Vice President, New York Project Operations; Senior Vice President, Regional Operations; Vice President, Consulting b Engineering, Quality Assurance and New Technology; and Senior l

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10serY k Procurement activities in the regional offices are headed by a Manager Purchasing who is responsible to the Vice President-Manager Regional Office. The Managers Purchasing are responsible for coordinating preparation of Instructions to Bidders and Terms and conditions sections of the procurement document; administering all purchasing and expediting aspects related to procurement-functions and coordinating with the Manager Purchasing, New York Office the establishment and maintenance of the corporate list _of. approved bidders-for nuclear safety related items and services.

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t construction phases of at least one nuclear power plant.

The organization of the QA Department is shown on Figure 17.1-4.

The QA Department has four main functional responsibilities:

a. to establish and approve QA and QC requirements and criteria;

b. to review engineering and design documents for procurement and construction to verify that all nuclear safety requirements have been incorporated; c. to provide -surveillance of all QA activities in the New York and regional offices, during the 5 engineering and design, procurement, and construction phases to determine that all on-line and specified independent design ve ri fication procedures and quality control procedures have, in fact been applied to all processes-engineering, design, procurement, manufacture, fabrication, assembly, construction, erection, installation, and preparation for startup; and that all activities have been properly documented, whether at G&H facilities or at facilities of suppliers, constructors, and their subcontractors (to the extent of G&H contractual obligations to the Utility Owner); and d. to audit at regular interv als, by examination and evaluation, the objective evidence provided by documentation accumulated internally and externally in the normal course- of the processes involved and during surveillance activities at G&H offices, at the supplier's facilities, and at 5 the nuclear plant site. Audits are performed by the Gedi QA Department or by G&H Management, as aT plicable, in 'accordance g with written procedures and checklists to verify compliance with i

Amendment 5 June 1981

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